,​Excited about Tom Konyves Poets with a Video Camera symposium (I am very lucky to be key speaker) and the poetry reading on the 6th – Poems by Poetry Filmmakers with the wonderful symposium speakers; a lot of inspiring people!

 Bideodromo International Experimental Film and Video Festival in Bilbao has accepted Villanelle this year (Spanish version). It will be screened in the Art House Zinema of the BilbaoArte Art Production Centre this Friday, the 17th October. So very pleased as many experimental festivals don't accept poetry films, although this film is more on the experimental side. Wish I could be there :( as it has a wide selection from across the world. 

Very pleased to say that Atticus Review has an interview with me – The Archaeology of the Text – on The Poetics of Poetry film by artist Rebecca Rezakhani Hilton. A number of people are mentioned including Pam Falkenberg and Jack Cochran in relation to working from sound first, VideoBardo and of course Tom Konyves. Very pleased to be back on AR again, so thanks Matt. Thank you too, Rebecca.

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Join us on August 28th at 2pm eastern time for a conversation about poetry film. This year Zebra Poetry Film Festival will celebrate its twentieth anniversary, Liberated Wordscelebrates its tenth anniversary and a new critically acclaimed feature film Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing (John D. Scott, 2022) is being released. I would like to thank John and Leah for inviting me to take part in this discussion which should prove to be really interesting (in terms of John and Thomas at least!) I have written about John’s tour-de-force of a project before, and the painstaking dedication it took; but revisiting it really highlights the numerous examples of cinematic ‘close observation’, following the approach of his subject. I would challenge anyone to find a more poetic approach to a documentary, as well. Since John is a pioneer in this field I would sign up quickly, before the world moves on and he is back submerged in yet another life’s work!
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Attendees will be in conversation with:
John D. Scott, Associate Professor, Documentary Studies, Ithaca College and Director, Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing.

Sarah Tremlett, poetry filmmaker, poet, and theorist, author of The Poetics of Poetry Film
Thomas Zandegiacomo Del Bel, Artistic Director, Zebra Poetry Film Festival
Leah Shafer, Associate Professor and Chair, Media and Society Program, Hobart and William Smith Colleges (moderator)
Co-sponsored by:
the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival
and the Center for Media and Society at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Time:
Aug 28, 2022 02:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Register here for the event:
https://ithaca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMocO-rrz8iHNO1xUVgigQxYznuKKsscpkk
Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing is a creative feature documentary on poet Elizabeth Bishop that incorporates several poetry films. It will be available online via Eventive for a short window beginning Friday noon August 26th eastern time until Sunday August 28th at midnight at this link:
https://watch.eventive.org/virtualcinemapolis/play/62eca14e1df9d6007842f2fe
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UobKxA0gVgY
Web:
https://artoflosingmovie.com/
https://www.facebook.com/elizabeth.bishop.artoflosing
 

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I never thought I would see the day when a luminary such as Wheeler Winston Dixon would quote someone such as myself. But I truly mean what I say about this prolific filmmaker/artist and sage on experimental film in the USA (see The Exploding Eye, 1997). He is a pioneer, along with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster in this particular field, and works tirelessly on new videos almost every day. See his Vimeo profile for further information.  

Really thrilled to be part of Tom Konyves' major and long-running videopoetry exhibition  Poets with a Video Camera: Videopoetry 1980–2020 in Vancouver 
(September 17th 2022– January 2nd 2023). This is truly a milestone event, and there will also be a very interesting symposium on the subject (in which I am very flattered to say I am the key speaker) on the 5th November, entitled: New Art Emerging: Two or Three Things One Should Know About Videopoetry. My video poem some everybodies is from 2009 and asks questions about place as embodied site, tourism, and passing by. It centres on a corner near a tourist hotspot in historic Bath, England (where incidentally a small accident occurs). Footage was gathered over a year, from a fixed camera, and both the sound and the images have been slowed down to emphasise movement. Conversations have become text-on-screen disconnected from the images and creating a communal poem of the site itself. Wherever a tourist has paused to take a picture, the film has been frozen for a few seconds, and the screen has a graphic coloration to emulate old postcards (which have also been made from  
selected stills, to accompany the film).

​I have to add the promotional image is by Janet Lees (as mentioned in previous post) and actually to me one of her most poignant films – something about the pathos of the birds yet their polite fragility, and the conjuring up of a delicate humour and otherworldliness. There are I think 25 of us in the exhibition. More updates on this coming up in the next month or so but check out SAG if you need more details in the meantime. A not-to-be-missed event.